- From: Vadim Plessky <lucy-ples@mtu-net.ru>
- Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 12:29:29 +0000
- To: "Hoyt, Phil" <Phil.Hoyt@globeinteractive.com>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On Friday 21 September 2001 14:50, Hoyt, Phil wrote: | I have looked several times and I'm quite sure that there is no explicit | mention of horizontal rules in CSS. I'm understand that the accepted | method of styling rules is to use 'height' and 'background-color', but I | think that border styles are more appropriate since one is (in my opinion) | just is likely to, say, want a dotted hr as one with a background image. | The frustrating thing is that IE and Netscape deal with these things | differently and there is a bit of overlap, at least in IE 5 with the old | non-style method of defining hr's. | I feel that it is necessary to be explicit about the case of hr in css. | One should be able to create a div with height: 0 (or width for that | matter, to make a vertical rule), and set borders that apply to the only | remaining dimension. Do you have HTML/CSS testcase, with description *how* it should look like? I think your proposal is quite logical, and just wondering what kind of problems MS IE and NS have when DIV has height: 0. Do you have any real-world pages which require changes proposed by you? -- Vadim Plessky http://kde2.newmail.ru (English) 33 Window Decorations and 6 Widget Styles for KDE http://kde2.newmail.ru/kde_themes.html Do you have Arial font installed? Just test it! http://kde2.newmail.ru/font_test_arial.html
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